Here are some web links to organizations, institutions, and companies that have professional and personal points of interest:
 
American Political Science Association (APSA):  www.apsanet.org 
 
The Chornicle of Higher Education:  http://chronicle.com
 
Global Research in International Affairs Center:  http://gloria.idc.ac.il 
 
International Studies Association (ISA):  www.isanet.org 
 
Middle East Studies Association (MESA):  http://mesa.wns.ccit.arizona.edu/ 
 
The United Nations (UN):  www.un.org 
 
World Affairs Council:  www.world-affairs.org 
 
Human Rights Watch (HRW):  www.hrw.org 
 
Amnesty International (AI):  www.amnesty.org 
 
The Carter Center:  www.cartercenter.org 
 
European Union (EU):  http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm 
 
Institute for International Mediation & Conflict Resolution:  www.iimcr.org 
 
The Third Side:  www.thirdside.org/stories.cfm 
 
 
NEWS & JOURNALS:
 
BBC News:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/
 
Foreign Policy:  http://www.foreignpolicy.com/index.php
 
Foreign Affairs:  http://www.foreignaffairs.org/
 
New York Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/
 
Washington Post:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/
 
The Boston Globe:  http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/
 
Frontline PBS:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
 
The Christian Science Monitor:  http://www.csmonitor.com/
 
The International Herald Tribune:  http://www.iht.com/pages/index.php
 
The Times of India:  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
 
Al-Ahram Weekly (English):  http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/index.htm
 
The Daily Star (Lebanon, English):  http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
 
Bitter Lemons Middle East Roundtable:  http://www.bitterlemons-international.org/index.php
 
Middle East Times:  http://www.metimes.com/index.php
 
Haaretz:  http://www.haaretz.com/
 
Jerusalem Post:  http://www.metimes.com/index.php
 
The Economist:  http://www.economist.com/index.html?uviewed=1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
IMPORTANT LINKS
I also have a BLOG: 
http://hayat-ia.blogspot.com/
PERSONAL INTERESTS & CONNECTIONS:
 
My Brother's (Atiq Alvi, civil engineer) Articles: 
 
 

My Uncle, Professor Varis Alvi (also spelled Waris or Alavi):
http://www.urdustudies.com/auinfo/AlaviVaris.html  ;   http://carbon57.tripod.com/idea.htm

Varis Alavi:  "Gabriel and Lucifer," Literary Critique of Iqbal's Poem Jibril o-Iblis:
http://www.urdustudies.com/pdf/20/04AlaviLucifer.pdf
 


Arcadia University's International Studies Program web site (which I designed):  http://gargoyle.arcadia.edu/intlstudies/
 
 
Arcadia University:  http://www.arcadia.edu
 
The American University in Cairo:  http://www.aucegypt.edu/Pages/default.aspx
 
Norwich University Online Diplomacy Program:  http://diplomacy.norwich.edu/
 
 
 
WEB LINKS TO MY PUBLISHED ARTICLES:
“Candidates’ Foreign Policies of Rhetoric,” Middle East Times, 4 June 2008: http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/06/04/candidates_foreign_policies_of_rhetoric/6331/.
 
“The Human Rights of Women and Social Transformation in the Arab Middle East,” Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), 9:2, June 2005 (142-160): http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2005/issue2/jv9no2a8.html; http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2005/issue2/Alvi%20Hayat%20pdf.pdf.

“Following the Djerba Model,” Middle East Times, 13 February 2007: http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070213-102103-6838r.

“The Status of Women and Children in Iran,” Global Matters, Arcadia University
Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 3, January/February 2006 (2-4): http://gargoyle.arcadia.edu/globalmatters/vol4no3/vol4no3.pdf.

“Building Bridges: Cross-Cultural Understanding in a Globalized World,” Global Matters,
Arcadia University Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 2, December 2005 (2-4): http://gargoyle.arcadia.edu/globalmatters/vol4no2/vol4no2.pdf.
 
“Indian Violence Shatters Gandhi’s Dream,” Middle East Times, 15 March 2002: http://metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-11/opin/indian_violence_shatters.htm.